It wouldn’t be true to say that I don’t play Bach. I play Bach, but never in front of an audience: it’s a composer who belongs to my own private world. He has been following me since the beginning, and I only play it now for fun, trying to push my thought a little further. But for the moment, I just don’t feel ready to perform it.

Bach’s Music passed through ages and is still young and fresh. Forgotten for a while and rediscovered by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, it has always been played since then. Among my favorites interpreters, I should quote Gould, but also Edwin Fischer and Wanda Landowska. Hard to stand apart from such musicians, they already said a lot about this music.

Bach needs time and devotion, but the reward is tremendous.

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